Delivering on Vision 2030 - Rotorua Lakes ...

Delivering on Vision 2030

                            May 2019

What is the PGF?
 A $1 billion per annum fund focussed on lifting the productivity potential in the provinces

Priority:
• Enhance economic development opportunities
• Create sustainable jobs
• Enable Māori to reach their full potential
• Boost social inclusion and participation
• Build resilient communities
• Help meet NZ climate change target

May 2019

“The Lakefront Redevelopment is fundamentally important to the
overall health and future of the destination and it is therefore
recommended that a team be established to:
a) explore international best practice in waterfront regeneration,
b) identify leading master planners in this discipline and explore
   their work and approach, and
c) examine the opportunities to create a world class, multi-layered,
   development that will help drive tourism, enhance the overall
   quality of life for residents and support a sustainable, long-term
   regeneration of the city and the wider destination.”
                                             Professor Terry Stevens

What are the benefits?

  • Quality lakefront experience for residents

  • Opportunities to tell cultural stories

  • Upgraded play space, closer to the lake and with spaces
    for families to picnic

  • A wide, smooth boulevard experience for all types of
    users

  • Improvements to village green, parking and access

What are the benefits?

  • Increase in productivity through associated businesses – Hotel,
    accommodation, F&B and tourism operations

  • Anticipated increase in Rotorua’s GDP from new and expanded
    businesses, co-investment and visitor/population growth

  •   Encouraging private development from iwi and local developers
      who own landholding surrounding sites

  •   Increase in jobs and training to the region (to be delivered by
      local education providers). This will ensure locals are best
      placed to secure short and long-term jobs through relevant
      training

  •   An increase in tourism spend driven by the quantity of visitors
      and their improved spend thresholds

Key Milestones

Delivery

                      The project advisory
                      group would include
                      Gifted Lands Protocol   Responsibilities of
Pending approval                              this group could
                      Committee, Ngati
by Council,                                   transition to any
                      Whakaue, Rotorua
establish a project                           agreed Council
                      Lakes Council, Te
advisory group                                Control Organisation
                      Arawa Lakes Trust
                      who will oversee
                      achieving the project
                      outcomes

May 2019

“There is a need to ‘up the ante’ and improve all aspects
of quality in all parts of the tourist system… the unloved
aspects of the city need to be re-loved. The top
attractors and core assets must receive better support
by the rest of the services and infrastructure. Assets
must be sweated and made to work harder”
                                  Professor Terry Stevens

Latest estimates

What are the benefits?

  • Better access for dog walkers, potential for secondary access
  • Safer stopping and parking areas
  • Dedicated space for equestrian users
  • Additional access from Fenton Park side
  • Central play space, encouraging families to picnic and stay longer
  • Enhanced bike skills play space for young families
  • Safer pedestrian access along Long Mile and entrance to Forest
   Hub
  • Safer night-time experience along Long Mile
  • Spreading user with dedicated areas so the experience is
   enhanced

What are the benefits?

  • Protecting and safe guarding the environment for future users
  • Better stormwater management
  • Education around cultural stories and history of forestry
  • Enabling private development from iwi and investors
  • New tourism activities and operations
  • Better environmental sustainability
  • Increase in jobs and training to the region (to be delivered by
    local education providers)
  • An increase in tourism spend driven by the quantity of visitors
    and their improved spend thresholds
  • Enable sustainable public access.

Key milestones

Delivery

Since consultation document agreed:

• visitor economy strategy approved through BOC, Rotorua first
  2 priorities endorsed

• positive meetings with Min Jones on 2x projects (get moving
  together) & other MPs

• MBIE application for $800k to progress detailed business
  cases (supported by BOC, confirm next few weeks)

• BOP surge region, clear priorities, understanding of required
  business case

• match funding levels available

• positive progress with partners eg SCION, CNI